A beautiful terminal UI for exploring and managing your Homebrew packages with ease.
You know how after some time you run brew list and see a bunch of packages you have no idea about? Me too! It's frustrating to figure out what those packages do without copy/pasting their names into brew.sh and only then discovering what they're good for.
That's why I created Brew Explorer - a little app that makes it easy to understand what formulaes and casks you have installed on your system.
Plus, you can quickly uninstall old useless things and update whatever was left behind - all from within the same interface!
✨ Appealing TUI - Clean, intuitive terminal interface with ASCII art
🔍 Search functionality - Quickly find packages by name
📦 Package details - View descriptions, homepages, versions, and more
🔄 Update packages - Update outdated packages with a single keystroke
🗑️ Uninstall packages - Remove packages you no longer need
🎨 Color-coded status - Green for up-to-date, red for outdated packages
⚡ Fast navigation - Multi-column layout for efficient browsing
🚀 Auto-sync - Runs brew update on startup for fresh package information
- macOS (Homebrew is macOS-specific)
- Homebrew installed
brew tap cosmincatalin/tap
brew install brew-explorer- ↑/↓ or k/j - Move up/down in the package list (Vim-style)
- ←/→ or h/l - Move left/right between columns (Vim-style)
- PgUp/PgDn - Jump by pages
- Home/End - Jump to first/last package
- / - Start searching for packages
- u - Update the selected package
- x - Uninstall the selected package
- q - Quit the application
- Type any character to search for packages by name
- Enter or Esc - Exit search and return to browsing
- Navigation keys (↑/↓/←/→ or k/j/h/l) still work while searching